First listen to Earth, Wind & Fire - September (REACTION)
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Your dad might have been listening to Sirius XM Satellite Radio today at the same time I was. I turned on the 70's channel and I heard this one for the first time in many years....so I cranked it up.. How cool to come home and see you're reacting to it.
Hahaha, that's exactly correct!! He listens to music on the way home from work and this came on Sirius XM:)
Within the first couple of seconds of this song, you smiled. Welcome to "September"! You just cannot be sad when hearing this song - only happy! It's one of the best feel-good songs ever!
There you go Daniel a great example of what your lyrical dissections can do for your listeners lives. After enjoying this song for over 4 decades, now because of discovering the song's centering on the day of my father and mother's Anniversary and my dearly loved late sister's birthday, this song means so much more to me now. Thank you.
Saw EW&F & Chicago in concert. Never forget that concert!!!
This is a huge wedding song...everyone gets up to dance...
People get up and dance no matter where it's played!
Philip Bailey had a huge hit in the mid-80s w/Genesis' Phil Collins called "Easy Lover".
Great presentation !
Phil Collins is special.
"That's the Way of the World" is their signature song according to Maurice White RIP. "Getaway", "Jupiter", "Fantasy", "Reasons". They've got the tightest horn section in the business.
Speaking of high falsetto vocals - Philip Bailey takes it to another level on Fantasy. Love the feel of Getaway.
They also do a great version of The Beatles song got to get you into my life
Great suggestions!
Black, white, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s good. Which is true. But.
If you’re a little Black kid, growing up in the 60s/70s, to see Black artists succeed, and to have that success recognized as coming specifically from Black people, well, that was a big damn deal. Same for Native American kids with Redbone. “That’s someone who looks like me! If they can do it, I can too!”
White folks have been the default for so long, it’s easy to take for granted, but that racial distinction matters, because representation matters.
Very true. Thank you for posting this!
@@DiconDissectionalReactions How soon they forget. Before Earth Wind & Fire America loved both the Phllly Sound and the Motown Sound, both of which featured Black artists who were wildly successful. Growing up in Metro Detroit, I'm more versed in Motown lore. Motown introduced The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Diana Ross, and a host of other musical acts one tier below those in the amount of fame they achieved.
I've had the pleasure of sitting down with Martha Reeves and talking music with her for an hour of so. She remained a celebrity in Detroit for decades after her heyday.
American's embracing Black performers has been citied both as success stories for the performers involved, and as a manifestation of racism, the argument being that Blacks were OK to put on a show for white folks, but apparently not for much of anything else, with the stereotype given that Blacks just had natural rhythm.
The British Invasion pushed a lot of Black acts to the sidelines, so I'd agree that the advent of and success of Earth, Wind, and Fire could have served as inspiration and pride for a new generation of young Black kids. I truly don't care for funk or r and b music, but if I have to listen to it, bring on some EW & F for me. please.
Maybe somebody from Philly can rhapsodize a bit about all of the Philly Sound acts.
Yes, I was just writing a comment on this when I saw these posts. Good comments. I'd just add cultural context can be very important in understanding music - like Bob Marley for ex. Or bands like EWF, who would've been banned from many clubs just a few years before their formation (1969). This not simply about color, PC or some abstract notion of ethnicity - this is about real world issues that many had to deal with and it affected many aspects of their lives - particularly the cultural artifacts they create. If you're serious about understanding why music sounds the way it does - and Daniel, you seem to be - history and context is critical.
So so true. I would say that more importantly what set EWF apart and to a lesser degree (commercially), Maze being #2, were bands that weren't just looked up to in all the important ways you mention, but brought musical instruments, cultural influences and a strong dose of pride directly from Africa into their songs and shows. Managing to incorporate all that and the endless good vibes into one band is a gift I hope we will never hear the end of.
I take issue only with the fact people still keep these distinctions around today.
The supposed “That’s someone who looks like me! If they can do it, I can too!” rhetoric.
Like you can't be inspired by black musicians as a white guy or vice versa. What's with thinking people are like that? Are you like that?
This is such a GREAT band. Earth Wind and Fire are a primal force.
I was actually going to recommend some Stevie Wonder before you posted this. While his big hits include “Superstition”, “Sir Duke”, “As”, “Higher Ground”, considering your spiritual nature and intense reads of lyrics, check out “Heaven is Ten Zillion Light Years Away” by Stevie Wonder. Oh and “You Haven’t Done Nothing” is really appropriate in this day and age alsp
Philip Bailey is a master at singing falsetto. His voice really shines on "Reasons", pulling off an amazing call & response w the saxophonist. Another stellar (instrumental) track, Sun Goddess, feat. the legendary Ramsey Lewis. The live versions of these songs from their Gratitude double album are mind-blowing, far beyond the studio versions. Shining Star, Yearnin' Learnin', Sing A Song were some of their pre disco (early 70s) best offerings.
Love Philip Bailey.
EWF crossed genres very successfully and their upbeat, positive vibe made them super popular with very diverse audiences. Always a fun band to listen to and extremely talented.
This song just MAKES ME HAPPY, when I hear it.
You definitely want to hear "Way Of The World", and "Fantasy" by them, roller skating back in the 70's would not have been the same without EWF.
Such a great song. I'm a huge EWF fan. September 21st is actually my birthday, so its cool they mention September 21st.
Happy belated Trance88! My birthday was the 19th and have always loved this song. I was 10 or 11 when it was first released and loved the fact it was about my birthday month lol hope your’s was fun🎉
Oooooo changing it up!! Another youthful memory.
Earth Wind and Fire have a huge catalogue of excellent funky soulful jazzy feel good R& B classics From ballads to music with the most incredible grooves! Great band with stellar vocals and harmonies ! Loved these guys!🎼🎶🎵♥️🇨🇦
Along the lines of your spot-on commentary regarding musical ethnicity, would love to throw out Eric Burdon with War, preferably "Spill The Wine". A legendary African-American band with a white lead singer. And nobody cared, and it was GREAT.
The next couple of albums they did without Burdon weren't bad either: Slipping Into Darkness, Gypsy Man, The World is a Ghetto...
@@benoitdesmarais2948 I love that extended version World is a Ghetto. And Cisco Kid makes me happy.
@@Live2swim LOVE Cisko Kid. And Low Rider too.
only thing is, Daniel will probably have to stand for at least part of Cisco Kid. I just listened to it again, and since I was already standing, I had to start dancing 😃
Philip Bailey is in the bright yellow outfit, you asked if he was the other singer. Yep. Saw them live in 2016 and Philip and his son were both singing. Philip can still hit the high notes and hold them
One of the most musical and entertaining bands in the world to this day!
Today there's so much more concern about color. Back then, nobody cared as long as the music was great! Sure do miss those days.
Great music is color blind. Fun reaction, thanks for the listen.
If your not moving with this song you're official dead.
This was my favorite record back in the day. I still have this song on my jogging playlist.
I feel you. Music is music, just as people are people. Always liked this song, especially since my son was born in September.
I love that you did this!. Good for you. Out of your wheelhouse but do some music just for fun!. You will never regret it.
'Fantasy' is one of their greatest songs. It is pop perfection and the production is awesome. x
One to get your dancing shoes on to! 😁
I saw someone else recommend Stevie Wonder. Isn’t she lovely from songs in the key of life is great. Truly amazing harmonica.
I'm reallyreallyreally glad you are doing this. About 10-15 days ago I (and I was then joined by a few others) raised a stink in comments on a channel because I think there has been One song reacted to that was performed by a woman there, and there had been zero songs by black stars. There is also incredible "socially conscious funk". Like a great guitarist named Curtis Mayfield (Pusherman, Superfly). And War's song The World Is a Ghetto (long version) is ear candy (and when I say funk, I also mean it rocks). Also Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street" (good enough for opening a Tarrantino movie).
Yes indeed Daniel, it definitely was a "groovy" time ! And tell Mom we love your hair. If you are gonna do the 70's, you gotta have the long hair ! Please don't do the clothes from then though, hehe...they were soooo bad !
✌❤🌻😷🎶
Daniel, one of my favorites. Great dance tune!!!!! Love it! We do a dance called The Universal Cha Cha to this song.
Even though I didn’t like pop this song is part of the soundtrack of youth. This was on radio constantly and is forever ingrained in my soul
Lol. my mother and father were married on Sept. 21. 1 year later my sister was born on... you guessed it Sept. 21. Never caught that specific date in this song
Fabulous song. I remember this as a kid. Earth Wind & Fire have a plethora of tunes to get lost in...
If you're of a certain age it is absolutely mandatory that, no matter where you are, you pause and "air trumpet" to this song. If you're at a party or wedding reception, you have to all do it in a line, and add the foot moves, too. I mean, it's practically a law.
EWF is an awesome, influential band. September is considered a "crossover" hit because in the 70s/80s, black artists could crossover from black radio to mainstream stations when the songs were more pop/dance-based and less R&B or funk-based. EWF's massive catalog is pretty diverse.
Would be cool to react to Stevie Wonder's song Superstition. Wonder is blind, black, and started out as a Motown artist, with their great studio musicians playing behind him. But he became one of the first people in rock to write, arrange and produce his own music. On Superstition he plays the drums, very well, and the clavicord. He started as a pianist, singer (obviously?), and on Superstition he plays the bass on a moog synthesizer -- the moog does it quite well! Jeff Beck (famous guy)worked on the bass part with him, but Stevie's version was the big hit.
Oooh what would be really cool would be to immeduately after, also listen to Rick Beato's breakdown of Superstition...on your video. I think it would be fun to see you hear parts of the tracks of individual instruments. And Steve's amazing vocals singled out, which few singers can cover well. Just an udea. But probably should wait a good while, until Rick Beato's video has been online several months, to be considerate. It's kind of new. But he is not a blocker I will bet, because he does a lot of videos talking about how much he hates blockers.
I sooo love it that the much younger generation discovers the music which came out when I was 16-17 years old. Back then we knew how special it was, and we danced like crasy!!! I still do when I hear this...
If you're doing September songs, you need See You In September by the Happenings, and September Morn by Neil Diamond.
BTW, Excellent observation about good music not needing to be categorized - racially or otherwise. I love music of all genres - some more than others - but quality always shines through. Keep exploring and don't let genres deter you. :-)
Great tune! I've seen EW&F a couple of times and they killed it each time!
The voices and the horns are the first things that hit me with Earth, Wind & Fire. But Verdine White's bass playing is very under-appreciated. Songs like "Shining Star" and "Can't Hide Love" put his bass in the forefront.
"September" is a great song who's lyrics mean next to nothing. It's more about the feeling and the groove. The words and syllables are used as they were used traditionally in early R & R, merely as a way to introduce and ride on the rhythm. As a way to advance the melody. Try them doing "Fantasy", "After The Love Is Gone", "Let's Groove", "Shining Star" and "Reasons". Welcome to great falsetto of the incredible Phillip Bailey.
This song just makes you feel good.
What a great band. I remember my older brother getting this record when I was like 7 years old.
YES! EWF is one of the tightest bands ever. Philip Bailey would later record a hit with Phil Collins of Genesis and the Phoenix Horns would record with both Genesis and Phil Collins solo. Lots of great tracks to explore: Shining Star (one of my favorites for Verdine [Ver-deen] White's bass playing) ruclips.net/video/Zu9a29UR2dU/видео.html - They also did a great cover of the Beatles' Got To Get You Into My Life ruclips.net/video/MKskYvTGEHE/видео.html - If you like these guys, Sly & The Family Stone is another excellent band to check out for tracks like Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) with groundbreaking slap bass from Larry Graham ruclips.net/video/09bSoxFgaRI/видео.html - Everyday People ruclips.net/video/3JvkaUvB-ec/видео.html - Dance To the Music ruclips.net/video/Jn2PNlhvy8E/видео.html - and I Want To Take You Higher (the performance at Woodstock is incredible - make sure to also watch the finale which is a call-and-response extension of the song with the enormous audience) Part 1: ruclips.net/video/3fZBaPS_XvQ/видео.html - Part 2: ruclips.net/video/LQkdiJQIX5Y/видео.html - definitely one of the high points of the Woodstock Festival. :-)
Duke Ellington is famously quoted as saying, "There's only 2 kinds of music: good music and bad music."
Many cool songs to discover.
Shining Star is another great message, upbeat song!
I agree with your sentiment on the irrelevance of racial categories in music. 👍
1st.... Sound is great DDR. So loud i now need to turn my speakers down!
If you're going to a "September" song .... Frankie Valli's "September Rain".
Cool to see you moving into R/B. Maybe some Stevie Wonder and Sly & the Family Stone on the horizon?
If they have any episodes on RUclips, check out "Soul Train"...the R & B version of American Band Stand.
Yeah some Stevie Wonder and Sly and the Family Stone would be great!
@@mr.goodenough3796 For Sly and the Family Stone, I'd start with Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). Here's a video link: ruclips.net/video/wj5VODa-eTY/видео.html
Stevie Wonder is a huge rabbit hole. Maybe start with Superstition, Living for the City, or Sir Duke. Way too many to list.
"Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Music is music that’s what connects people ❤️❤️❤️
As far as bands with the best music arrangement (which doesn't happen anymore), best harmony groups and best audio engineering (mixing) of records ....... this is the group considered the best of all time in the history of pop music. No one is even near EWF in those categories. In fact, they were so good at what they did that to this day no one has produced better overall music than Earth, Wind and Fire. Other great bands that fall just behind EWF like The Art Of Noise, Led Zeppelin, Daft Punk, The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, and Adele are some of the other bands and singers I've heard with true high quality music in singing, arrangements and audio mastering sound.
This song was The Jam from when I first heard it!! We jammed to this song in 4th/5th grade!!
OMG dude you hit the motherlode of funk from the 70s. There's a world of this from that time period, just happy dancey music, Bee Gees, KC, Donna Summer, on and on, Enjoy. Rock was dying till Eddie brought it all back.
E.V.H.?
@@navinspurpose7609 yes
We have a funkologist/discologist joining us. Welcome good sir. Now please get the funk out.
@@tangledandfar I wasn't offended I thought it was funny. Anything can be called funky IMO. Get the Funk Out is a song by Extreme, meant it as a joke.
@@tangledandfar tangle you are my hero. I've said plenty of my share of stuff I wish I had thought better of. But you're cool. Extreme was an 80s band started out guitar hero style with Nuno Bettencourt but their biggest hit was a ballad "More Than Words". The lead singer joined Van Halen after Sammy was booted total disaster.
I'm glad you find the lyrics and read them in advance; at first, I thought it was annoying, but then I realized, it actually helped.
Happiest song ever❤️👍
The existence of "segregated" music reflects 300 years of slavery and 100 years of Jim Crow. Not too long before EWF topped the charts, a very different world existed. White artists like Pat Boone would re-record great records that had been recorded by black artists because radio would not play black acts. In fact, it wasn't until the 1960s that black artists became mainstreamed, or "crossover." As you study US history, you'll figure out why there were genres like "black pop" and "soul" and "R&B" and maybe even "disco." All tied to our national identity - all tied to the entire African American experience.
Thankyou!
I have always loved EWF, Fantasy is a great song 🎵 of theirs
I completely agree on your statement that skin color doesn’t matter. If it’s good music, it’s good music! It doesn’t matter the skin color of the singers.
Hey man its pretty cool you’re listening to all this music from the era. I got a really good listen for you. Funky #7 by Hot Tuna. This is the guitarists band from Jefferson Airplane, another great band from the 60s. Its got great electric solos and funk of the 70s and wahwah solos. So definitely take listen to this with a reaction video. Lmk what you think.
You also might want to look into their collaboration with the girls group "The emotions". The song entitled "Boogie wonderland".
Check out Earth Wind and Fire's 'Shining Star' and 'In The Stone'. Great funky grooves, w/ great playing and singing. Both great feel-good songs.
A band that had two "eras" regarding record labels. Releasing two albums in 1971, they were a fairly nondescript R&B band on Warner Bros. Records. In '72, leader Maurice White, formerly with the Ramsey Lewis Trio jazz combo, shook up, and re-formed EWF with several new members. During a performance at NYC's Rockefeller Center, Columbia Records president (and record industry legend), Clive Davis, was in attendance, and impressed with their show, proceeded to purchase their contract from Warner Bros.
Several R&B chart hits followed, with no real breakthrough smash. That was until White and veteran soul and R&B producer, Charles Stepney produced EWF's "That's the Way of the World" LP in 1975. That LP got to the top of both the Billboard Top 200 and their Top Soul Albums lists, while that album's "Shining Star" became their first breakout hit, zooming to #1 on the pop charts, becoming the first Black act to top both Billboard's singles and album charts.
The album's success led them to be able to hire their own horn section, originally dubbed the EWF horns, but later morphed into the Phenix Horns (yes, spelled that way). "September" was issued in 1978, and got to "only" #8 on the US pop charts, but made it all the way up to #3 in the UK!
Maurice White, the heart and soul of EWF, died on February 4, 2016, after suffering for some years with Parkinson's disease.
It was called "Groovy " ha ha..
Back when EWF started performing there were still places in the South where black people could not stay in some motels/hotels or even in certain towns after dark (and there are still such sundowner towns in parts of the US) and slept in their cars or busses or left town. Although such was illegal by the late 60s. When I was young, black music wasn’t played on ‘white’ radio stations or shown performing on TV. When Little Richard made "Tutti Frutti" and it was a huge hit that attracted white teens in the mid-50s the powers that were made a white crooner named Pat Boone cover the song. *That’s* who many white kids thought made the original song. There were other such examples. A lot has changed for the better, but that racism still percolates under the surface. My family is from the South, I’ve seen and heard it my whole life.
Thankyou, so important!
As much as I love prog rock and hard rock there are also some very good R&B/soul songs. Try Strawberry Letter 23 by the Brothers Johnson, Suavecito by Malo or Just My Imagination by The Temptations. Who's That Lady (parts 1 & 2) by The Isley Brothers has a great guitar solo (and 7 million+ views)..
Also The Happenings, See you in September.
Edit: and if your going to do The Happenings please please please one of my favorite all time songs "I Got Rhythm"!
If you’re a fan you call them the “Elements”
A person's cultural background can greatly influence their sound..
LEGENDS!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw Earth, Wind & Fire a couple of years ago at Madison Square Garden - CHIC OPENED !!! You gotta check out Nile Rodgers on his guitar! The funk master! Anyway... The concert was beyond great!!! Such diversity and joy!!! I LOVE MUSIC!!! 💜💫✌🏼🎵
*Check out, "I Love Music" by the O'Jays!
It'll put you in the *best* mood!
Funny, never noticed the blue talk, explicit love talk. Never too soon or late to learn.
Omg...I can't believe I missed this from you! I specifically go in and look for EWF reactions! These guys are a kick! I still listen to their double album of greatest hits, especially when I do my acrylic pour painting! Get me in a groove in no time! This tune can become an earworm to carry you around if you're bopping around doing errands!
Awwwwright! Moving into R&B. Sooner or later, you will get into Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Stevie Wonder's Innervisions (Livin' for the City - a must!), Curtis, Roberta Flack (the original Killing Me Softly). I agree that great music is great music - but there is also history. The blues and R&B didn't come out ot thin air. But great R&B can be done by any great musician.
Shining Star by EWF. My favorite!
Listen to EWF --- complete albums of "All 'N All", "Faces", "Head to the Sky", "Gratitude" and "Millennium"!!!!
The bass player and lead singer were brothers...Maurice White (Lead singer) died in 2016..His brother, Verdine and he were 10 years apart; Maurice the older one.
There is great Russian covers band that does this and lots of Chicago songs. They are called Leonid And Friends. Almost as good as this.
They are amazing and their videos are incredible. I wish Beato would check them out.
Mega-popular “dance-tune” by one of the BEST R&B bands; vocally/instrumentally/Songwriting/arrangement-wise, of all time! So much to talk about with this particular production, lyrics being the least of those elements, LOL!
A cover of this song was just released by a fairly unknown artist...Judith Owen. The vibe is completely different....taking the darker, more poignant interpretation. It becomes a very different song when done by a true “torch” singer.
ELO. DUDE. ELO. ANYTHING.
Best concert ever great Horns and the leader Maurice white passed away and Phillip Baiily I don't know any one my age60s hasn't liked these guys while or black the best record if 1975 Played the hec k out it in the Navy all great songs could get funky or sing a beautiful love song like the Commodores lived reasons and After the love is gone
❤️❤️❤️
Fun dance song, EWF is always a reliable band. They had a surprise hit with a throwaway cover of the Beatles "Get to you into me life" from a aweful movie
This song was in The Night in the Museum 2
Lest anyone think the part about the book is some sort of Mandela effect, the book was actually written in 1968, republished in 1983. To whoever made that comment, Wikipedia tends to hide that information in the body of the description. ;)
Things were different then. All radio stations had a certain genre of music and the music very seldom crossed genres.
7:30 Frankie Valli!
please do a reaction to Boogie Wonderland also from Earth Wind and Fire that is another great song.
12th of never is good one too. They covered the Beatles, got to get you in my life
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic.
I know I’m late to this party, but so glad I found it! I always loved this song but could never understand the lyrics, so used to sing nonsense syllables! 🤣. You can’t sit still. Liked your comments about race and music because it’s so insignificant. Glad you liked this! I thought this song was about him nostalgically remembering an important relationship.
Waterboys whole of the moon is a good one
If I'm not mistaken the month is referencing the time of birth of the lead singer's child.
Take a look at Kool & The Gang too. + Ram Jam.
You’ve got to do Celebrate
Really should checkout SLY and the Family Stone... tons of classic songs... amazing band...SLY is a genious.
The effect wasn't really meant to be psychedelic, it was just the effects available for video were extremely limited at the time.